{"id":142218,"date":"2020-04-30T01:59:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/30\/maj-sjowall-nordic-noir-pioneer-author-of-the-martin-beck-series-dies-aged-84\/"},"modified":"2020-04-30T01:59:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:59:13","slug":"maj-sjowall-nordic-noir-pioneer-author-of-the-martin-beck-series-dies-aged-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=142218","title":{"rendered":"Maj Sj\u00f6wall: \u2018Nordic noir\u2019 pioneer, author of the Martin Beck series, dies aged 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With her husband Per Wahloo, who died in 1975, Sj\u00f6wall\u2019s books paved the way for the likes of Henning Mankell and Stieg LarssonMaj Sj\u00f6wall, one half of a Swedish crime-writing couple credited with inventing the \u201cNordic noir\u201d genre, has died aged 84, her publisher said on Wednesday.Sj\u00f6wall, a pioneer of gritty realism and an inspiration to modern crime writers, \u201cpassed away today after an extended period of illness,\u201d Ann-Marie Skarp, head of publisher Piratforlaget, told AFP. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/apr\/30\/maj-sjowall-nordic-noir-pioneer-author-of-the-martin-beck-series-dies-aged-84\" target=\"_blank\">Maj Sj\u00f6wall: \u2018Nordic noir\u2019 pioneer, author of the Martin Beck series, dies aged 84<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With her husband Per Wahloo, who died in 1975, Sj\u00f6wall\u2019s books paved the way for the likes of Henning Mankell and Stieg LarssonMaj Sj\u00f6wall, one half of a Swedish crime-writing couple credited with inventing the \u201cNordic noir\u201d genre, has died aged 84, her publisher said on Wednesday.Sj\u00f6wall, a pioneer of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}